Lobbying

All these organizations have developed numerous working procedures, with very little difference between each other. These procedures seem at first heavy and cumbersome, but following them allows a consensus to be reached. Thus, for example, free access for all to the standardization commissions work is guaranteed, and the existence of lobbies is avoided. 

With the increased awareness of environmental and green issues there has been an increased interest in natural dyes accompanied by a lobby for natural fibers in favor of synthetic fibers. However, studies have shown (3) that if 1990 s volume of cotton were colored with natural dyes, at least 31% of the available world s agricultural land would be needed to cultivate the requisite plants. The estimate is based on it taking, on average, 440 g of fresh dye plant to achieve the same tinctorial effect as 1 g of synthetic dye. 

Where high wetfastness is needed, for example in hotel lobbies and bars where Hquid spillages are likely, the higher fastness acid dyes (Groups 2 and 3) and even metal complex dyes are used. 

As we have seen, the concept of MSB emerged early in the 1950s and by 1960, it had become firmly established, as the result of a number of decisions in academe and in industry. In that year, as the result of a sustained period of intense discussion and political lobbying in Washington, another major decision was taken, this time by agencies of the US Government. The Interdisciplinary Laboratories were born. 

FIGURE 7.88 Air curtain for a medlum Stze gate with a lobby /. fen 2, distribution duct 3, lobby. 

FIGURE 7.89 Air curtain with a lobby and outside air supply. 

Human resources, whether in-house or retained by contract, cost money, and represent either a direct or an indirect investment. In lobbying for PSM resources, be realistic about the time you think the effort will require underestimating the level of effort can raise management s expectations beyond your ability to meet them. At the same time, estimates of staff required can t ignore prevailing company priorities for example, a request for five new staffers during a hiring freeze is unlikely to be favorably received. 

From Table 3 it is clear that PVC is by far the cheapest among the five bulk polymers in the world today. Its unmatched versatility and low cost make PVC commercially one of the most important thermoplastics today. Even in applications in which it is in competition with some of the other bulk polymers its price-performance ratio gives it a slight edge. Despite the attacks from the environmental lobby, PVC continues to retain its commercial significance in the world market. 

The origins of the national laboratoiy network can be traced back to the late 1940s and the beginning of the atomic age. At the end of World War II, the scientific community, particularly the staffs from the Manhattan Project laboratories, lobbied Congress for civilian control of atomic power. Toward this end, the federal government transferred authority from the Army to the newly established Atomic Energy... 

At Park Avalon on Park Avenue South, a hangar-size boutique-hotel-lobby-style restaurant and bar, Jennifer Schumacher, the bartender, served her Long Island iced tea in a utilitarian-looking milkshake glass. 

The Mandarin Oriental, New York, which opened in November at 80 Columbus Circle, has done right by me. On the thirty-fifth floor, beyond the lobby, is the Lobby Lounge—a warm well of comfortable seating and flattering light with a King Kong—size conversational view of Central Park and the city. 

As I looked out the window and into the lobby, the Mandarin Oriental, with its silver Chinese cloud motif, began to remind me of the mythical lamasery in Frank Capra s 1937 Lost Horizon. (Mr. Capra claimed the Christmas season with another classic, It s a Wonderful Life.)... 

Hotel lobbies give you that kind of room to think. 

For that reason, it is an excellent summer drink. I have discovered that the gimlet is also an unexpectedly sophisticated fall-to-winter drink. Who wants to warm up, I realized, when you can have cool rational thoughts in temperate climates like the lobbies of good hotels on career changes, relationship breakups and other personal accounting The gimlet can be a serious work tool. 

Lobbying by other P-carotene producers — In addition to approvals of mixed carotenes from palm oil, P-carotene from Dunaliella microalgae, and other natural products, the EU Health and Consumer Protection Directorate General was asked for an opinion on the safety of P-carotene from a dried biomass source, obtained from a fermentation process with Blakeslea trispora for use as a coloring matter for foodstuffs. 

I sign the credit-card slip and fail to hear the information about dinner and breakfast at the restaurant next door, drink and snack machines on the landing. There s apparently no lounge or any neutral space, just floors of rooms. Then I go to the window and wave the two keys at him, and he lifts our luggage from the boot, locks the car, and shoulders through the door into the lobby. 

The form and the process of regulation offer a whole range of possibilities, from hierarchy to the market, via various hybrid situations. The efficient regulator will be that which succeeds in developing an intervention that provides a better response to the characteristics of the transaction. For their part, lobbies are characterized by their nationality, size, reputation and experience. The empirical application considers a sample of active ingredients in three therapeutic groups for which the author identifies the regulatory forms adopted in each of the two countries. 

During the next days I was called on often to answer this charge. There was quite a flurry at the Grand Hotel, center of American community life in Numberg. One day Judge Shake, a medium-built man with a look of honest curiosity, greeted me from his chair in the lobby. He was reading the Stars and Stripes. It was ridiculous — but I felt ill at ease. Four of the ten people named I didn t know at all. Suppose one of them was a Communist I shook off the question. 

Was it lobby-chatter about this item, reaching Judge James Morris ears, which frustrated our effort to show the sources of the defendants power ... 

After we went into the Grand Hotel, Sprecher felt no better. He was too busy pacing to notice the crowd around the newsstand. We carried on a running conversation, from one lobby chair to another, Sprecher always a few feet ahead of me the first time I saw him in a hurry and getting nowhere. Then a word flew around the lobby like an insect buzzing from one head to another — Czechoslovakia. 

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